Jared Goldsmith

Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.

A.J. and his classmates are convinced that new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.

Mr. Docker, a new science teacher, is a crazy inventor who blows things up, uses potatoes for power, and has A.J. and his friends wondering whether science is for nerds or is the coolest subject ever.

A.J. and the other students at Ella Mentry School brave trick-or-treating at the school secretary's house, even though it is supposedly haunted.

Mrs. Cooney, the school nurse, is so beautiful that A.J. has a crush on her--even though he suspects she might be an international spy.

Mr. Macky dresses up as Abraham Lincoln to get the students at Ella Mentry School excited about their Presidents' Day oral reports.

The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and tries her best to get A.J. and the other students to eat healthy foods.

Disaster reigns when A.J. participates in the school's holiday pageant celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

Author Dan Gutman has garnered widespread accolades for his books, including the BooklistEditor's Choice and ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young People. In this episode of the popular My Weird School series, Ella Mentry gets a new- and very unusual- lunch lady. Ms. LaGrange talks funny. And she does odd things- like writing secret messages in the mashed potatoes and acting like the vomitorium is a fancy restaurant. A.J. has no idea why Ms. LaGrange is...

Popular author Dan Gutman has won countless fans with a trademark brand of humor that young readers find irresistible. In this second entry from the My Weird School series, second-grader A.J. gets sent to the office for not doing his homework. But things take an unexpected turn when Mr. Klutz, the skateboarding principal, gives A.J. a candy bar for encouragement. ". will satisfy newly confident as well as reluctant readers who ask for funny books."-School...